General Manager New Zealand Government Procurement

Tēnei tūranga – About the role

The General Manager New Zealand Government Procurement is a senior management and leadership position in MBIE which will bring their business understanding and perspective to work in partnership with senior managers on all aspects of strategic organisational development, change leadership and people management issues.

The role is responsible for providing cross-government leadership and capability to achieve effective and efficient results from Government’s procurement activities. In particular, the General Manager Government Procurement will deliver the All-of-Government procurement programme, provide policy advice on Government Procurement and maintain technical capabilities to respond to emerging procurement and all-of-government contract opportunities. In addition to this, the General Manager Government Procurement will be responsible for establishing the new Procurement Assurance and Monitoring function.

The role will be focused on building and enhancing the overall capability of the Government Procurement Branch to ensure quality and consistency of advice and practices in relation to Government priorities and procurement.

Ngā herenga – Requirements of the role

Personal specifications

• Demonstrated ability to build and lead a high performing group with a shared understanding of goals and priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to lead people with diverse skills and backgrounds, including those with deep technical expertise, and to lead through others.
• Demonstrated ability as a strategic systems leader.
• Experience in developing and maintaining an environment focused on continuous improvement to enhance organisational performance.
• Demonstrated ability to deal with complex and emerging issues that contain a high level of ambiguity.
• Experience in managing senior level relationships across both the private and public sectors.
• Wide ranging knowledge in leading, developing and implementing cross-Government procurement and contract management frameworks.
• Proven leadership skills including demonstrated ability to engage and motivate staff to make the transition.
• Ability to quickly establish and build strong working relationships.
• A strategic thinker who is able to make the connections between various aspects of the organisation and implications for their business unit.
• Proven ability to develop trust and credibility with senior managers.
• Sound appreciation of corporate management disciplines and techniques.
• Understanding of Government decision-making and operating procedures.
• Demonstrated experience in developing and maintaining an environment focused on continuous improvement to enhance organisational performance.
• Post-graduate qualification in a relevant field, or extensive and comparable experience.
• To be considered for this position you must have a legal right to live and work in New Zealand either hold or be suitable to attain an appropriate national security clearance.

Takohanga tuhinga o mua – Key accountabilities and deliverables

Key Deliverables

• Delivery of cross-government procurement and contract management synergies and realisation of cost savings
• Successfully create and maintain specialist procurement and contract management capability.
• Implement and sustain value-add, effective and efficient cross-government procurement and contract processes across the government sector as a whole.
• Deliver policy and training initiatives that add value to the procurement contract capability within the State Sector agencies.
• Develop a responsive operations/policy interface to ensure a common understanding of business needs.
• Develop strong horizontal relationships across MBIE.
• Ensure robust capability exists and is retained in specialist areas.
• Develop and maintain productive and constructive relationships with MBIE Policy Groups that provide operational and legislative Policy support to the statutory frameworks operating across the Ministry.
• Build, monitor and maintain fit for purpose innovative Ministry capability (people and structures) needed to achieve desired goals and objectives, and achieve expected efficiency benefits and ongoing improvements in cost effectiveness.
• Establish the Government Procurement function as a centre of leadership and expertise for the Ministry, and an exemplar of best practice for both the public service and the wider New Zealand labour and business markets.
• Deliver services to actively support and contribute to the achievement of the Ministry’s outcomes and that deliver to the needs of internal and external stakeholders.
• Customer focused culture across the branch.

Collective Leadership

• Participates collaboratively as a member of the RDCS Leadership Team to support the integration process for MBIE and ensure the development of sustainable organisational capability, and achieve expected efficiency benefits and on-going improvements in cost effectiveness.
• Represents Senior Leadership Team views to our people.
• Takes collective responsibility for the cohesion and performance of MBIE as a whole and provides peer support to other senior managers.
• Works with the leadership team to define the outcomes and outputs expected from the Group to deliver on MBIE’s strategic direction.
• Contributes beyond core functional area to enhance overall effectiveness of the Group and related work in MBIE.
• Ensures consistency and alignment between different teams in MBIE and promotes solution seeking where there are legitimate differences.

General Management

• Develops strategies, work programmes and performance targets for Government Procurement, with supporting measurement, monitoring and reporting mechanisms.

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• Aligns Government Procurement work programmes with MBIE’s strategic direction and other Groups’ work programmes.
• Monitors and adjusts work programmes through the agreed processes to enable Government Procurement to adapt to changing circumstances.
• Regularly monitors and reports on progress towards achievement of plans and strategies.
• Manages expenditure and resources in line with approved guidelines, budget, deadlines and reporting requirements, with a focus on driving cost effectiveness in the Ministry.
• Builds continuous review and improvement throughout all elements of Government Procurement operations.
• Effectively and consistently identifies and manages risk.

Relationship Management

• Participates as an active team member and contributes knowledge and expertise needed to achieve MBIE’s outcomes.
• Develops effective working relationships with other MBIE managers and staff in order to transfer knowledge and learning from the branch to the wider organisation.
• Represents whole-of-Ministry views and protects its reputation in external interactions.
• Achieve Ministerial confidence with Ministers and stakeholders actively seeking MBIE advice and support in times of difficulty.
• Builds strategic alliances with key government and non-government representatives to ensure MBIE’s views are influential in their decision making.
• Builds and maintains effective relationships and partnerships with national and international organisations to identify and share best practice information and to promote MBIE, its products and services.
• Tests the effectiveness of stakeholder relationships using a range of appropriate measures and processes (including stakeholder feedback).

Personal Leadership

• Models exemplary management and leadership behaviours and State sector ethics and values.
• Creates a sense of vision, empowers, engages, and motivates people to participate, and makes things happen.
• Fosters an open, collaborative environment that encourages trust, inclusion, quality, innovation, on-going learning and knowledge sharing.
• Leads, coaches, and develops diverse teams and different specialisations to deliver on the group’s expectations.

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Wellbeing, health & safety

• Displays commitment through actively supporting all safety and wellbeing initiatives.
• Ensures own and others safety at all times.
• Complies with relevant safety and wellbeing policies, procedures, safe systems of work and event reporting.
• Reports all incidents/accidents, including near misses in a timely fashion.
• Is involved in health and safety through participation and consultation.

Tō tūranga i roto i te Manatū – Your place in the Ministry

The General Manager New Zealand Government Procurement position reports into the Deputy Chief Executive Regional Development and Commercial Services. The branch sits within the Regional Development and Commercial Services group.

More information about MBIE's structure

Matatautanga – Competencies (Leadership Success Profile)

The Leadership Success Profile (LSP) is a leadership capability framework, developed by the New Zealand public sector for the New Zealand public sector. It creates a common language for leadership and establishes what great leadership looks like. You can look at the twelve underpinning capabilities and four leadership characters here: Leadership Success Profile | Te Kawa Mataaho Public Service Commission(external link)

To mātou aronga – What we do for Aotearoa New Zealand

Hīkina Whakatutuki is the te reo Māori name for the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. Hīkina means to uplift. Whakatutuki means to move forward, to make successful. Our name speaks to our purpose, Grow Aotearoa New Zealand for All.

To Grow Aotearoa New Zealand for All, we put people at the heart of our mahi. Based on the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi / The Treaty of Waitangi, we are committed to upholding authentic partnerships with Māori.

As agile public service leaders, we use our breadth and experience to navigate the ever-changing world. We are service providers, policy makers, investors and regulators. We engage with diverse communities, businesses and regions. Our work touches on the daily lives of New Zealanders. We grow opportunities (Puāwai), guard and protect (Kaihāpai) and innovate and navigate towards a better future (Auaha).

Te Tiriti o Waitangi

As an agency of the public service, MBIE has a responsibility to contribute to the Crown meeting its obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Te Tiriti). Meeting our commitment to Te Tiriti will contribute towards us realising the overall aims of Te Ara Amiorangi – Our Path, Our Direction, and achieve the outcome of Growing New Zealand for All. The principles of Te Tiriti - including partnership, good faith, and active protection – are at the core of our work. MBIE is committed to delivering on our obligations as a Treaty partner with authenticity and integrity and to enable Māori interests. We are committed to ensuring that MBIE is well placed to meet our obligations under the Public Service Act 2020 (Te Ao Tūmatanui) to support the Crown in strengthening the Māori/Crown Relationship under the Treaty and to build MBIE’s capability, capacity and cultural intelligence to deliver this.

Mahi i roto i te Ratonga Tūmatanui – Working in the public service

Ka mahitahi mātou o te ratonga tūmatanui kia hei painga mō ngā tāngata o Aotearoa i āianei, ā, hei ngā rā ki tua hoki. He kawenga tino whaitake tā mātou hei tautoko i te Karauna i runga i āna hononga ki a ngāi Māori i raro i te Tiriti o Waitangi. Ka tautoko mātou i te kāwanatanga manapori. Ka whakakotahingia mātou e te wairua whakarato ki ō mātou hapori, ā, e arahina ana mātou e ngā mātāpono me ngā tikanga matua o te ratonga tūmatanui i roto i ā mātou mahi.

In the public service we work collectively to make a meaningful difference for New Zealanders now and in the future. We have an important role in supporting the Crown in its relationships with Māori under the Treaty of Waitangi. We support democratic government. We are unified by a spirit of service to our communities and guided by the core principles and values of the public service in our work.

What does it mean to work in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Public Service?(external link) — Te Kawa Mataaho The Public Service Commission